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1 | Tall, sleepy-eyed British stage and screen actor, on stage from the age of six. Entered films in 1929, adept at musical comedies and melodramas. A decidedly theatrical type, he generally sported a monocle and a handle-bar moustache. Shine was usually typecast as affable dandies, silly-ass bunglers or slightly dense aristocrats. |
2 | His father, mother, grandmother, two uncles and an aunt all worked in the theatre. |
3 | Has a son by each of his wives. |
4 | His first role was as a stork in Princess Posey in 1917 The Winter Gardens New Brighton. |
5 | Son of actor Wilfred Shine. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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First Night | 1937 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Cotton Queen | 1937 | | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
Troopship | 1937 | | Cpl. Edrich |
Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith | 1937 | | Rodney Broadbent |
The Compulsory Wife | 1937 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Take a Chance | 1937 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Agony Column | 1937 | Short | Minor Role |
Sensation | 1936 | | Quirk |
You Must Get Married | 1936 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Rembrandt | 1936 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
To Catch a Thief | 1936 | uncredited | |
Highland Fling | 1936 | | Lizards |
Servants All | 1936 | Short | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Find the Lady | 1936 | uncredited | |
Gaol Break | 1936 | | |
Music Hath Charms | 1935 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Blue Smoke | 1935 | | Ted (as Billy Shine) |
Late Extra | 1935 | | Fred (uncredited) |
Old Roses | 1935 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
It Happened in Paris | 1935 | | Albert (uncredited) |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934 | | An Aristocrat (uncredited) |
My Old Dutch | 1934 | | Cousin Arry (as Billy Shine) |
The Private Life of Don Juan | 1934 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Strauss' Great Waltz | 1934 | | Carl (uncredited) |
The Man from Toronto | 1933 | | Butcher's Delivery Boy (as Billy Shine) |
Verdict of the Sea | 1932 | | Slim |
Money for Nothing | 1932 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Bells | 1931 | | |
Many Waters | 1931 | | Registry Office Junior Clerk (uncredited) |
These Charming People | 1931 | | Ulysses Wiggins |
The Yellow Mask | 1930 | | Sunshine |
The Last Hour | 1930 | | Ben |
Harmony Heaven | 1930 | | Rejected Actor (uncredited) |
The Loves of Robert Burns | 1930 | uncredited | |
The Greenwood Tree | 1929 | | Leaf |
High Seas | 1929 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Flying Scotsman | 1929 | | Barman |
A Very Peculiar Practice | 1988 | TV Series | Old age pensioner |
Super Gran | 1985-1987 | TV Series | Inventor Black / Snay |
Screen Two | 1986 | TV Series | From The Rear Window |
All for Love | 1983 | TV Series | Friend |
The Jigsaw Man | 1983 | | Commissionaire |
Cribb | 1980 | TV Series | Landlord |
Mr. Big | 1977 | TV Series | Cricket fan |
Happy Ever After | 1976 | TV Series | Arnold Finch |
Second Time Around | 1974-1975 | TV Series | Francis |
The Upper Crusts | 1973 | TV Series | Rollo Bognor Regis |
Burke & Hare | 1972 | | Landlord |
Bachelor Father | 1971 | TV Series | Mr. Gibson |
Coppers End | 1971 | TV Series | Vicar |
Not Tonight, Darling | 1971 | | Captain Harrison |
She Follows Me About | 1970 | TV Movie | Didnot |
As Good Cooks Go | 1970 | TV Series | |
ITV Playhouse | 1968 | TV Series | Landlord |
The Avengers | 1968 | TV Series | The Honorable Thomas Randolph Cleghorn |
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse | 1968 | TV Series | Willy |
The Sky Bike | 1967 | | Wingco |
ITV Play of the Week | 1964-1967 | TV Series | Landlord / Starveling |
Room at the Bottom | 1967 | TV Series | Club Steward |
Mrs Thursday | 1967 | TV Series | Duke of Midlothian |
Ouch! | 1967 | Short | Bride's Father |
Armchair Theatre | 1963-1966 | TV Series | Arthur |
Dixon of Dock Green | 1965-1966 | TV Series | Edward Locke / Animal Clinic Supervisor / Tedd |
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery | 1966 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Bindle (One of Them Days) | 1966 | | Man in country pub |
Thirty-Minute Theatre | 1965 | TV Series | The Colonel |
Gaslight Theatre | 1965 | TV Series | Jack Felton / George Freemantle |
The Valiant Varneys | 1964-1965 | TV Series | |
The Sullavan Brothers | 1965 | TV Series | Professor Madley |
Frankie Howerd | 1965 | TV Series | |
Joey Boy | 1965 | | Ticket Collector (uncredited) |
The Yellow Rolls-Royce | 1964 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Bootsie and Snudge | 1963 | TV Series | Man Hiker |
The Rescue Squad | 1963 | | |
BBC Sunday-Night Play | 1963 | TV Mini-Series | Phil |
Ghost Squad | 1963 | TV Series | Hathwin |
Once Aboard the Lugger... | 1963 | TV Series | E.J. Farrowby |
Zero One | 1962 | TV Series | Pilot |
The Rag Trade | 1962 | TV Series | |
Gilbert and Sullivan: The Immortal Jesters | 1961 | TV Series | Naval Officer |
Citizen James | 1961 | TV Series | |
Three Live Wires | 1961 | TV Series | |
Double Bunk | 1961 | | 2nd Thames Conservancy Officer |
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's | 1960 | | Usher |
Not a Hope in Hell | 1960 | | Pettigrew |
The Days of Vengeance | 1960 | TV Series | Sharp |
It Takes a Thief | 1960 | | Farm Laborer |
Trouble with Eve | 1960 | | Alonzo, Artist |
The Champion | 1960 | TV Movie | Constable Crummies |
Knight Errant Limited | 1959 | TV Series | Nevil Tooth |
Libel | 1959 | | The Guide |
Call Me Sam | 1959 | TV Series | |
The Boy and the Bridge | 1959 | | Bridge Mechanic |
The Adventures of Brigadier Wellington-Bull | 1959 | TV Series | Assistant manager |
Left Right and Centre | 1959 | | Centre - Ronald Basingstoke |
Playhouse 90 | 1959 | TV Series | |
Jack the Ripper | 1959 | | Lord Tom Sopwith |
Make Mine a Million | 1959 | | Outside Broadcast Producer (uncredited) |
The Larkins | 1959 | TV Series | Car Salesman |
Quatermass and the Pit | 1959 | TV Mini-Series | First Journalist / 2nd Journalist |
Blow Your Own Trumpet | 1958 | | Drummer (uncredited) |
The Man Inside | 1958 | | English Husband |
Ivanhoe | 1958 | TV Series | Cedric the Simple |
Educated Evans | 1958 | TV Series | Young Man |
The Diplomatic Corpse | 1958 | | Humphrey Garrad |
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's | 1957 | | Policeman (uncredited) |
The House in the Woods | 1957 | | Colonel Shellaby |
High Flight | 1957 | | Policeman |
Rock Around the World | 1957 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Tony Hancock Show | 1956 | TV Series | Various Characters |
Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Last Man to Hang? | 1956 | | Underhay |
Lilli Palmer Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | Bill |
Blonde Bait | 1956 | | Lindbergh (uncredited) |
Bond of Fear | 1956 | | Man Hiker |
Women Without Men | 1956 | | Reveller |
Sixpenny Corner | 1956 | TV Series | J.L. Smithers |
Not So Dusty | 1956 | | Alistair Lincoln |
An Alligator Named Daisy | 1955 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Richard III | 1955 | | Beadle |
Quentin Durward | 1955 | | Trois-Eschelles |
The Deep Blue Sea | 1955 | | Golfer |
The Gold Express | 1955 | uncredited | |
John and Julie | 1955 | | Car Driver |
As Long as They're Happy | 1955 | | P.C. Bowker (uncredited) |
Where There's a Will | 1955 | | Porter |
Raising a Riot | 1955 | | Dotty (uncredited) |
Colonel March of Scotland Yard | 1954 | TV Series | Floor Painter |
Duel in the Jungle | 1954 | | Bill Shine (uncredited) |
Tonight's the Night | 1954 | | Saxby |
The Detective | 1954 | | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
Lovers, Happy Lovers! | 1954 | | Pub Barman (uncredited) |
Devil on Horseback | 1954 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Clue of the Missing Ape | 1953 | | Henchman in Opening Sequence (uncredited) |
The Great Detective | 1953 | TV Series | Jasper Bloodstone |
Innocents in Paris | 1953 | | Customs Officer (uncredited) |
Melba | 1953 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Blakes Slept Here | 1953 | Short | Minor Role (uncredited) |
There Was a Young Lady | 1953 | | Charlie, Duke of Chiddingford |
Hot Ice | 1952 | | Henry |
The Caretaker's Daughter | 1952 | | Clarence Mole |
No Haunt for a Gentleman | 1952 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Vampire Over London | 1952 | | Mugsy's Assistant |
Never Look Back | 1952 | | Willie |
The Woman's Angle | 1952 | uncredited | |
The Cocktail Party | 1952 | TV Movie | Alexander MacColgie Gibbs |
Jungle Treasure | 1951 | | F / Officer Prang |
Aladdin | 1951 | TV Movie | Emperor of China |
Scarlet Thread | 1951 | | Basil (uncredited) |
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | Sam Thirsk |
Talk of a Million | 1951 | uncredited | |
Something in the City | 1950 | | Reporter |
Her Panelled Door | 1950 | | Major |
Lady Audley's Secret | 1949 | TV Movie | George Talboys |
The Amazing Mr. Beecham | 1949 | | Reporter |
Under Capricorn | 1949 | | Mr. Banks |
Private Angelo | 1949 | | Col. Michael |
Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | | Captain Willow |
Another Shore | 1948 | | Bats Vere-Brown |
The Hideout | 1948 | | Maitland |
The Winslow Boy | 1948 | | Fred (uncredited) |
The Red Shoes | 1948 | | Her Mate |
Vice Versa | 1948 | | Lord Gosport |
Quality Street | 1947 | TV Movie | Lieutenant Spicer |
Captain Boycott | 1947 | | Press Photographer (uncredited) |
A Night at an Inn | 1946 | TV Movie | Bill |
Wanted for Murder | 1946 | | Det. Ellis |
Vacation from Marriage | 1945 | | Webster (as Billy Shine) |
For You Alone | 1945 | | Captain (uncredited) |
While Nero Fiddled | 1944 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Champagne Charlie | 1944 | | Mogador Stage Manager (as Billy Shine) |
Turned Out Nice Again | 1941 | uncredited | |
Crook's Tour | 1941 | | Bit Role (uncredited) |
Mail Train | 1941 | | Hotel Porter |
Old Bill and Son | 1941 | | Pub Customer (uncredited) |
As You Are | 1941 | Short | Minor Role |
Spare a Copper | 1940 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Garrison Follies | 1940 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Three Silent Men | 1940 | | Bystander at Accident (uncredited) |
To Hell with Hitler | 1940 | | Untipped Steward (uncredited) |
Lonesome Like | 1939 | TV Movie | Sam Horrocks (as Billy Shine) |
Cæsar's Friend | 1939 | TV Movie | A sentry (as Billy Shine) |
The Face at the Window | 1939 | | Pierre, Babette's Beau (as Billy Shine) |
Over the Moon | 1939 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Second Thoughts | 1938 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
The Villiers Diamond | 1938 | | Joe |
They Drive by Night | 1938 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
His Lordship Goes to Press | 1938 | | |
You're the Doctor | 1938 | uncredited | |
Is Life Worth Living? | 1938 | TV Movie | Slattery (as Billy Shine) |
The Terror | 1938 | uncredited | |
The Green Cockatoo | 1937 | | Lightning (uncredited) |
The Girl Was Young | 1937 | | Manager of Tom's Hat Cafe (uncredited) |
The Last Adventurers | 1937 | | Joe Hanson |
Dinner at the Ritz | 1937 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
There Was a Young Man | 1937 | | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Murder on Diamond Row | 1937 | | Alfie (uncredited) |